LET ME LOVE YOU

Chapter 44 - The return

"What?"

By his facial expression alone, I could easily tell that what I said didn't sit well with him, which I totally expected, but the goal was to convince him.

"I said I think you should divorce her-"

"No I heard what you said, I'm just wondering how you allowed such a thing to even come to your head?" At that point he was sitting up right "are you out of your mind? Do you know what divorce means?"

"I do, but-"

"Then why the fuck would you suggest it?!"

"Just listen," I said "I didn't mean it in the way you're thinking, it's just to threaten her so she'll realize her mistake and come back to her senses, which at the end of the day is for her own good"

"I don't know what you think divorce means but it's certainly not a toy that can be played with. It is the most hated of permissible things to Allah even when the Situation is at the worst it could ever get, but here you are telling me to do it as a 'threat' with so much confidence" he said "when you refused to come back to the house, All Aya ever did was beg me to bring you back, sometimes I even get upset and save her off but she never stopped, she stood her ground that you weren't supposed to be anywhere but here in your husband's house, but you're doing the complete opposite and saying it's for her own good. How does that make sense to you?"

"Babe I was just-"

He cut me off "I don't want to hear anything like this again, it should even happen by mistake, do you hear me?"

I wanted to say something else, but at that moment I knew not to. It was best to leave him alone whenever he was angry, and besides, I wasn't going to ruin all my hard work with just one mistake, seeing as he was starting to hype her up and all.

Mtchewwwww!

"Okay, I'm sorry" I swallowed all the negative emotions that piled up inside me and smiled "it won't happen again"

"It better not, because she's coming back tomorrow" that's all I got before he pulled his blanket over himself and went back to laying down, leaving me with annoyance and a bit of anger to compliment it.

I then realized that Separating them completely was definitely going to be harder than I thought, especially since he still wanted her to come back to the house, but Not on my watch. I wasn't willing to back down so easily, and I always get what I want, so I knew for sure that I'd make it happen.

I just had to wait a bit longer.

*****

NEXT DAY.

Aya

"...add more salt and potash and lower the heat, then after like five minutes, turn the heat off, okay?" I instructed Zainab, one of the newest housemaids at my in-laws' house, referring to the okro soup we were making for dinner.

She nodded in response and went on to do as I said while I added the last teaspoon of pure honey to Baayi's cinnamon tea. I had been the one making his tea ever since I arrived at the house because apparently I make it better, he said there's a certain flavor he gets from it that he hasn't tasted before, which is because I hardly make tea with processed teabags, I prefer to infuse quite a lot of herbs and boil them in the water, then sieve and serve with honey.